Category archives for: Zen

Chicken or Egg: The Answer

Chicken or Egg: The Answer

Teen #1: “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”
Mom: “The egg. Eggs were around a long time before the chicken.”
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Smarticles of Matter

Smarticles of Matter

Today’s vocabulary lesson–Smarticle
The Urban Dictionary defines the term “smarticle” as:
(adj) Describing someone/something being smart, smart in nature. Ironically uses incorrect grammar. Usually used in an informal or joking fashion

“The girl read her smarticle answer out loud to the class.” “That was quite a smarticle maneuver, he thought.”

That’s all well and good because we know the [...]

I Know Y’all Are Sick of This

I Know Y’all Are Sick of This

But I’m not.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6517352.html?nid=3323.  Scroll down.
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Liz’s Publication Party

Liz’s Publication Party

Liz Gallagher’s novel, The Opposite of Invisible, is making its debut!  Here’s the review I posted awhile ago:
“Alice is a Seattle teenager who seeks advice from a poster. She has two tree-hugger parents, one good friend, and an endless thirst for vanilla lattes. What she’d really like, though, is a boyfriend, someone, anyone who will [...]

Test Post 2

Test Post 2

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My Adoration of Mary Pearson

My Adoration of Mary Pearson

One of the delightful things about getting ARCs is being among the first readers to lay hands on a remarkable book and then having the pleasure of shouting from the mountaintops about this exquisite thing you’ve found (or, um, had mailed to you). It must be the same feeling that editors get when an [...]

2007 Resolutions

2007 Resolutions

Having optioned David Lubar’s intellectual property for the princely sum of $0 (aka, I’m blatantly stealing his idea of posting resolutions at the end of the year in order to assure accuracy), I’m now ready to post my 2007 Resolutions.
1. Finish the YA urban supernatural novel (YAUS) I began in 2006.
2. Join a kick-ass critique group.
3. Get an [...]

Speed e-Racer

Speed e-Racer

1141 words

I’m a lousy typist, but I do know a little html.
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